Eve no Jikan act01: AKIKO is the first in a six part series by Yasuhiro Yoshiura which seems to explore the implications of robots who look and behave exactly like humans - androids - becoming an integral part of society.
Very little can be said without spoiling too much, so I will limit myself to discussion on the execution here. The flow and pacing of the story was excellent. Every scene transitioned well and the characters themselves were full of life and expression. Yasuhiro Yoshiura truly loves his twists at the end, however this time it wasn’t too big a surprise but was exciting nonetheless (Rikuo’s expression was priceless).
Many thanks to pireze for ripping this show from Yahoo’s video stream service and subtitling it!
Major spoilers after the jump:
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In an artificial world colored in faded tones of grays and browns, the past has long been obscured - forgotten even.
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I didn’t catch this until I saw some screen captures, but the music piece in the background here is Beethoven’s Fur Elise.
Figure 1.0: Quite a bit of attention to detail.
I was surprised that they went through the trouble of putting in an actual score, although I guess with the shift to digital rendering of anime, this probably wasn’t too hard.
One thing I’d like to see in this anime is more piano pieces - since they seem to portray Haruka as more or less a virtuoso, I thought we’d get to hear more classical music.
Edit: The scene is from episode 3, around 27 seconds in.
Warning! This post is full of TL;DR fail.
A response and a discussion of value and preference of literature (and obviously other forms of media). (more…)
This time I vectored an image from some SnS product (think its a cushion or a mousepad?), so the source was an annoyingly sparse 500×500.
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Fumina Konoe Strikes Back was definitely one of (if not) the best Shana-tans I’ve seen.
Figure 1.0: Shana-tan mulls.
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>:3
In the eyes of the beholder - at first it simply looked like the response of a multi-coupled band-pass line filter…
Figure 1.0: Jesus Christ its a lion, get in the car!
hahaha.
For some reason I was quite surprised that they mentioned some actual literature in the anime.
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Gonna take a while to get back to the old movie-watching habits. My goal is to have seen all the notable 07 films by next month.
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It is pretty much understood that most independent films, particularly ones made by first time directors and writers, will not gather much of an audience. They may bring it around the festival circuit, or they may get a few open-minded fans, and if they’re really lucky, they can find a good distributor, sell enough tickets to keep the producers happy, and gather enough credibility to finance their next project. But every once in a while, such a independent film (usually a comedy) comes along and makes it very, VERY big. I’m talking about hundreds of millions in box office revenue and a multitude of media attention. In 2006, there was Little Miss Sunshine; before that, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and most recently, it was Juno.
Good luck exploring the infinite abyss, Braff. (I’ll explain how this is relevant)
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